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Died. Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, 84. British actor famed for his noble Shakespearean roles, which he played from 1874 until he retired from the professional stage 21 years ago; in St. Margaret's Bay, Dover, England. The greatest of his 130-odd parts was that of Hamlet, whom he thought ''not mad." merely "waxed desperate with imagination...
...concerned the bitter, prolonged strife of industry and labor. He and Mediator Charles P. Taft, who last week sailed for Europe leaving the steel strike to stew in its own juice, had agreed that the public feeling toward both parties to the dispute could be summed up in one Shakespearean phrase, "A plague o' both your houses." Was this double-damnation his own feeling? The President declined to affirm or deny. It was what he thought the public thought. Since good politicians model their opinions after the public's, it was fair to deduce that Franklin Roosevelt...
...citations were ineffective, the Court of Appeals decided, and the Shakespearean sentiments atavistic. Wrote Judge Irving G. Hubbs: "A wife is no longer the property of her husband in the eyes of the law, and by the general acceptance of society. . . . Not being a common law contract the [marriage] relation may be regulated . . . without violating the provision of the Federal or State Constitutions which forbids the taking of life, liberty or property without due process...
Having praised Leslie Howard not at all and John Gielgud perhaps not enough for their Hamlets, New York critics last week gave the season's third major Shakespearean headliner his just due and then some. As Richard II, Maurice Evans was "thrilling and memorable" to the Herald Tribune, "triumphant" to the Times, "majestic" to the News. Not even the hallowed Edwin Booth, who last revived the role in Manhattan in 1878, could have asked for more. Actor Evans, a mellowed Britisher, trained for his latest royal part as Napoleon in St. Helena and the Dauphin in Katharine Cornell...
...deleted material was not sensational. Starting the Journal soon after Johnson's death, he sent his copy to the printer page by page, found before he reached the middle that his book was getting too long. He made some revisions and excisions and his friend Edmond Malone, famed Shakespearean scholar, made more in the interests of elegance, taste, discretion, brevity. Malone also rewrote so extensively that "hardly a paragraph was printed exactly as Boswell wrote it," and Boswell's repeated defense of the Journal, that Johnson himself had seen and approved it, was "gravely misleading." Although the high...